Before I Forget
Pitts, Leonard, Jr.
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Description for Before I Forget
paperback. This powerful debut novel by an award-winning journalist explores the challenges of fatherhood for three generations of black men. Num Pages: 336 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 28. Weight in Grams: 428.
This powerful novel of three generations of black men bound by blood -- and by histories of mutual love, fear, and frustration -- gives author Leonard Pitts the opportunity to explore the painful truths of black men's lives, especially as they play out in the fraught relations of fathers and sons. As 50-year-old Mo tries to reach out to his increasingly tuned-out son Trey (who himself has become an unwed teenaged father), he realizes that the burden of grief and anger he carries over his own estranged father has everything to do with the struggles he encounters with his son. ... Read more
This powerful novel of three generations of black men bound by blood -- and by histories of mutual love, fear, and frustration -- gives author Leonard Pitts the opportunity to explore the painful truths of black men's lives, especially as they play out in the fraught relations of fathers and sons. As 50-year-old Mo tries to reach out to his increasingly tuned-out son Trey (who himself has become an unwed teenaged father), he realizes that the burden of grief and anger he carries over his own estranged father has everything to do with the struggles he encounters with his son. ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2009
Publisher
Agate Bolden United States
Number of pages
336
Condition
New
Number of Pages
336
Place of Publication
Evanston, United States
ISBN
9781932841435
SKU
V9781932841435
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99-15
Reviews for Before I Forget
PRAISE FOR LEONARD PITTS, JR.'S NOVEL BEFORE I FORGET: "Pitts is a master storyteller with a keen eye for both social trends and the human heart."
Tananarive Due, American Book Award winner, author of Blood Colony "[Before I Forget] is a beautiful, tragic and riveting work."
Marilyn Dahl, Shelf Awareness
selected as one of top ten novels of 2009 "In a ... Read more
Tananarive Due, American Book Award winner, author of Blood Colony "[Before I Forget] is a beautiful, tragic and riveting work."
Marilyn Dahl, Shelf Awareness
selected as one of top ten novels of 2009 "In a ... Read more